I have been Platinum for several years now. Because of several factors, I cut back my stays at Marriott chain and have only 26 nights so far this year and still needed 49 stays to renew.

To my surprise, today I received a challenge: stay 18 more nights between now and 12/31/2005 and acheive Platinum status thru 1/2007.

Do not plan to try, but was curious if anyone else got this offer.